Dual G5 2Ghz - won't reboot after security update.

I installed today's security update on my G5 tower, and after reboot I get nothing but revving fans after 30 seconds or so. Just the grey screen with the apple logo.
I've reset the nvram and pram to no avail.
Boo.
MBP Duo 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I had to run to dinner... left you kind of hanging ;-(
I was afraid that you were still using your drive (and downloading files etc) while it was in a "precarious" state (thin ice, and jumping up and down to see how thin or thick the ice is... ).
Should always work from another disk drive.
Even if Disk Warrior repairs you want to try to backup files you need first. And it can help to trash stuff that you don't need, easy to replace. Sort of "peel an onion" tearing away the latest additions and working backward (in time to older files) to "undo" changes to the drive and directory.
There are some programs that will force a system to always boot into single user mode or verbose mode. I think Onyx and Cocktail, probably Tiger Cache Cleaner as well.
My feeling is that if there are problems, I avoid the Archive & Install entirely. I much prefer the ERASE with ZERO-ALL and restore from backups. Lacking that, full clean install. Backup along that way.
Backup or clone when you have the system installed.
When it has been updated to latest Apple version and patches.
Again when you have your essential programs installed.
And repair permissions as you go.
A system only takes up 15-45GB so you can even backup to a disk image (sparseimage is best).
You should be working from another drive now. FireWire or internal SATA.
And if you want to "wing it" and feel prepared, I would run the 10.4.9 standalone combo update.
Some thoughts about disk repairs and Disk Warrior:
Backup (SuperDuper) to another drive first if possible.
Boot from that (free to do full copies) and make sure it works.
Always a "bad idea" to repair a drive w/o backups.
You always want to have current set of backup(s).
Run Disk Warrior from hard drive, not from CD.
Often, just the process of cloning a drive is enough.
Run Disk Warrior against the new clone backup.
Disk Warrior is good preventative maintenance and best choice when it gets beyond that to needing to repair a drive.
So first - have a couple backups. And second - buy SuperDuper ($29) so you can do faster smart updates regularly (rotate your backup set) - and finally Disk Warrior.
I've found Disk Warrior finds and fixes things that Disk Utility misses that can help. And SuperDuper is super easy and reliable.
And just because Disk Warrior (or any disk repair) "fixes" a drive doesn't mean you may not have the contents of files that are corrupt.
You don't use Disk Warrior after reformatting, you use it to rebuild the disk's directory (or catalogue).
DW can also check for drive's status and show how many spare blocks are left, in use, or attempts to reallocate. It does not show read errors or soft errors, but it shows overall SMART status.
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